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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
WILLIAM COOPER TO AUSTIN
Peach Creek June 4th 1824
Col S. F. AusTIN Sm
If it is not inconsistent with your regulations I should be glad to get your promise for the other 3/4ths of that league of land- I am boath anxious and willing to pay for a league and as I have :improved in the 4 th it will suit me best to ha.ve it all together- I:f you are willing please to send me word in writing and then I can depend on it- By so doing you will much obliege yours etc w ILLI AM Coo PER
RANDALL JONES TO AUSTIN
Fort Settlement 4 th June 1824
DEAR Sm agreeable to the notice 1 we received some of us agreed to have a meeting but I think we lack publick spirit. I would come up but our horses have been injurd by the flies so much that I could not come. My wish is that this country should populate fast and I think that nothing would facilitate that more than the admission of Slavery in this state. An act for the regestering of marks and brands also ought to claim the attention of the Legislature The increase of stock will cause difficulties. An act to prevent the kill- ing of Deer and ·w"ild horses for the Skins alone I think necessary also. An [act] to prevent persons from Setting the praria on fire near the Settlements would be necessary; at certain seasons if the praria was fird it would destroy our stocks. As a citizen wishing to conform to every request of my officers I have thought proper to communicate my sentiments in this way R. JONES [Addressed:] Col Stephen F Austin St Felipe De Austin
INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPUTY IN STATE CONGRESS
[June 4, 18241] We the Inhabitents of the lower part of the Brazos are unanously in favor of Slavery being admitted we likewise wish to have the previlage of alecting our own officers both civil and military and 1 Austin's proclamation ot May 25, 1824, calll.Dg meeting to instruct deputy to thf State congress. · 25067•-24-VOL 2, PT 1--52
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